Talk:Balaklava
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[edit] Name
What was its name before Ottomans? It would be incorrect to call it Balaklava before Turks. There must be some Greek name. mikka (t) 22:19, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
- Issue appears to have been resolved -- names have been added. --Bossi (talk • gallery • contrib) 04:28, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Casualty figures
The current version of the wiki-article about the Charge of the Light Brigade states that the brigade lost 118 men killed and 127 wounded (and also that 362 horses were killed). This differs significantly from what is stated in this article: about 500 (presumably only human) deaths.--3 Löwi 14:52, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
- Fixed. The 500 number is because of unwitty maths: since of 700 only 195 were left, the rest must be total losses. The common misinterpretation is omissin of the word "mounted": the fact is 195 were left mounted, and this number is dominated by heavy losses in horses, rather than in personnel. mikka (t) 17:42, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Balaclava / Balaklava
So why Balaklava rather than Balaclava? And why the balaclava (not the balaklava)?-- ALoan (Talk) 14:22, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
- Per the Lonely Planet guide, Ukraine, it seems that balaclava is an Anglicised twist on the name owing to the Crimean War, when English women sent knitted full-cover caps to sailors whom were dying from the cold. The address on the packages containing these caps was written just as the English-speaking populace heard it sound. --Bossi (talk • gallery • contrib) 04:26, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
